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Is Food Addictive? A Review of the Science

Overview of attention for article published in Annual Review of Nutrition, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 776)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
15 news outlets
book_reviews
1 book reviewer
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
120 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
8 Redditors
guideline
1 clinical guideline source
podcasts
2 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
262 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is Food Addictive? A Review of the Science
Published in
Annual Review of Nutrition, June 2021
DOI 10.1146/annurev-nutr-110420-111710
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 262 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 9%
Student > Bachelor 20 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 5%
Student > Master 14 5%
Professor 11 4%
Other 46 18%
Unknown 133 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 20 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 7%
Psychology 14 5%
Neuroscience 12 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 4%
Other 38 15%
Unknown 148 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 241. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2026.
All research outputs
#197,003
of 34,547,233 outputs
Outputs from Annual Review of Nutrition
#14
of 776 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,606
of 487,151 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annual Review of Nutrition
#3
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,547,233 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 776 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 487,151 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.